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This is the second TV buy involving the Massachusetts GOP, now bringing its spending total to roughly $800,000, Democrats say. The state party reported having just over $360,000 cash on hand according to its most recent filing with the Federal Election Commission.

Spokesmen for the Gomez campaign and the Massachusetts Republican Party did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the latest ad buy, which begins the same day as Gomez and longtime Democratic Rep. Ed Markey hold their next debate.

Brad Dayspring, communications director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, repeatedly declined to say whether the Senate GOP’s political arm had anted up for the Gomez cause.

Dayspring pronounced the race “clearly winnable,” and said it would be foolish for the committee to disclose anything about the specifics of its activities in Massachusetts.

“Markey has thrown every big gun at Gomez and still leads only by 5-7 points. Sun Tzu once said, ‘Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness.’ I think that’s a good campaign strategy as far as specifics on our strategy to win,” Dayspring said in an email.

Aides to Markey claimed the NRSC and national Republicans were trying to “buy” the race for Gomez. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) sent out a fundraising e-mail Friday asking donors to back Gomez’s efforts, but Gomez himself has sought political distance from Republican leaders.

”The national Republican Party is trying to use this election as part of their efforts to obstruct President Obama’s every move while enacting a radical right-wing GOP agenda, and Gabriel Gomez’s laughable claims of independence that come at the very moment he’s launching a TV ad buy paid for with money from national Republicans have no credibility,” said Andrew Zucker, a Markey campaign spokesman.

Markey’s campaign is also going up with its own big ad buy this week, having purchased $631,000 in broadcast and cable ads starting Tuesday. The Markey ads will run in Boston, Springfield-Holyoke, and Providence-New Bedford.

GOP sources claim Markey has spent a grand total of $1.8 million to date in the general election, which is June 25.